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 PUBLIC LAW 88-629-OCT. 6, 1964

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Public Law 88-629 October 6, 1964 [S. 10 24]

D.C. Relocation services.

60 Stat. 797.

Payments for expenses.

District of Columbia Relocation Assistance Office.

60 Stat. 790. Regulations. Effective date.

AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to pay relocation costs made necessary by actions of the District of Columbia government, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Colmnbia are hereby authorized to provide such relocation services as they shall determine to be reasonable and necessary to individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations which may be or have been displaced from real property by actions of the United States or of the government of the District of Columbia, except the District of Columbia Eedevelopment Land Agency, such actions to include, but not be limited to, acquisition of property for public works projects, condemnation of unsafe and insanitary buildings, and enforcement of the laws and regulations relating to housing. The Commissioners shall provide that such individuals and families so displaced shall be given the same preference with respect to vacancies occurring in housing owned or operated within the District of Columbia by Federal or District of Columbia governmental agencies as is provided in section 8(b) of the District of Columbia Eedevelopment Act of 1945 (D.C. Code, sec. 5-707(b)). The Commissioners are authorized to make housing surveys in order to carry out this Act. SEC. 2. The Commissioners are hereby authorized to make relocation payments to individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations for their reasonable and necessary moving expenses and any actual direct losses of property except goodwill or profit caused by their displacement from real property acquired by the Commissioners after the effective date of this Act for public works projects of the government of the District of Columbia, except the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency. No such payment shall be made in any case where a payment for a similar purpose is authorized by any other Act. Such relocation payments shall be made in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commissioners and shall not for any one relocation exceed $200 in the case of an individual or family or $3,000 (or, if greater, the total certified actual moving expense not to exceed $25,000) in the case of a business concern or nonprofit organization. SEC. 3. Prior to the acquisition of real property for any public works project of the government of the District of Columbia the Commissioners shall make the same determinations with respect to the availability of housing for displaced individuals and families as is required by section 8(a) of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 (D.C. Code, sec. 5-707(a)). SEC. 4. There is hereby established within the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency an office to be known as the District of Columbia Relocation Assistance Office (hereinafter referred to as the "Office"). The Office shall provide the relocation services authorized by the first section of this Act, administer the payments authorized by section 2 of this Act, and provide the relocation assistance which the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency is authorized to rovide by the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 (D.C. iode, sec. 5-701 et seq.) and any other Act. SEC. 5. The Commissioners are hereby authorized to make regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. SEC. 6, This Act shall take effect sixty days after the date of its approval. Approved October 6, 1964.

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